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Re: Mecanum or 6WD

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
Is anybody else anticipating robots getting stuck and/or having a hard time in the lanes (including leaving the lanes around the towers)?

If you have a defense bot preventing you from zipping right out of the lane and past the tower, you want to be able to go around the tower as fast as possible to get by that robot -- or be able to just manhandle it out of the way.

I'm seeing defensive bottlenecks as very possible in this area of the field, but it still doesn't inform the decision between 6WD or mecanum, because each has a 'solution' to the problem.

Yeah, I was thinking this too. One strategy I was thinking about is the human player popping a tube through the feeder so it lands by the safe zone line (still within the boundaries). This would allow for the robot not going all the way in the safezone, therefore harder to get blocked (Can back up or pull out around the tower) and the opposition alliance still can't get the tube.

Just one thought.
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